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...death, this comic muralist had left the fullest scrapbook of a century dominated by entertainment. He drew, and drew out the spirit of, thousands of celebrities from high art (Toscanini, Natalia Makarova) and popular art (Anna Magnani, Natalie Wood). Through his pen, inanity became animate, and the captious craft of caricature was raised to character study...
...Anna Beets generally avoided the Charlie Company family meetings, but she went to the last one, because she knew she needed to hear about how the deployment would work. "They started talking about making wills," she says, and her eyes fill. "I wanted to burst out, How can you talk like this? I know I have to stay strong for the kids. We all know we have to do wills. But it just slaps you in the face to hear people talking about it that way." She knows that her husband's job is as dangerous as any other. Beets...
...devastating," Anna says of the prospect of deployment, "because once they get over there, it takes so long to hear from them." Like many other wives left behind, she thought about going home to her family while Tracey is away. But she is grateful for what the Army offers to families: the health care, classes and play groups. "I want the kids to have some kind of normal life," she says. "If I changed his environment," she says of 3-year-old D'Artagnan, "he might not think Daddy is coming back." His father was away for a month last...
When Tracey was in the National Guard, he served in the honor guard at Calverton National Cemetery on Long Island, N.Y. He would hand the folded flag to the widows of the Korean War and Vietnam vets who are starting to fill that graveyard. "If something happens to him," Anna says, "I don't want the flag. Let them give it to his mother. If you can't give me my husband back, you can keep your flag...
...They want you to believe it's an exercise," Anna says. "Well, we all know the President will declare war. I come from a military family, and I know how it goes." One of her brothers is a master sergeant in the Marines; the other is now a police officer but was a Marine in Desert Storm. "They said Desert Storm was an exercise, right up until you turned on the TV and saw they were bombing Baghdad. I know it's his job and he has to go. But D'Artagnan doesn't understand, and he asks...